Two Saturday night shootings on West End

Published 7:26 pm, Sunday, July 20, 2014

BRIDGEPORT -- Detectives are investigating a pair of non-fatal shootings that happened within a span of about 15 minutes Saturday night. Both were on the West End of Bridgeport, about nine blocks from each another.

Police say the first incident was called in at 10:34 p.m. A male victim was shot in the leg during a robbery on Lenox Avenue and was transported to St. Vincent's Hospital, police said.

The second shooting, reported at 10:49 p.m., occurred in or near Went Field Park, near the intersection of Railroad and Wordin avenues, police said. A female victim in that incident was shot in the back, police said, and was transported to St. Vincent's Hospital.

The identities of the two victims were not released Sunday, and there was no information available about their conditions. It was also not known whether the two shootings were related.